Poems from
Some Examples of Silence
by Michael Cope
Poetry
Rain
GHAAP
Scenes & Visions
Some Examples of
Silence
for the time being
Crossing the Desert
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Other Poems
Song Lyrics
A Virtual Anthology
YouTube Poems
Cautionary Verses
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Files.
Piles of files.
Broken old things.
Racks with paper stacks.
Stuffed black plastic bags.
Blind drawn down to darken all.
Broom and brush, bucket and mop.
Ledger-books in dark nooks inked in by hand.
The rat-trap to catch the rats that shit and scratch.
Grey paint that flakes from the rusting iron file-stands.
Dirty dead machines, dry with time lie piled in a corner.
The light hums and stammers making any movement shutter.
The chipped hotel saucer with a dried teabag and dead cigarettes.
Dust rustles and settles on loose-leaf binders, crunches underfoot.
Old elastic bands that stretch to snapping point around brown manila.
Print-out heaps repeat and repeat in neat rows of names and numbers.
Locked iron cabinets pale grey along the wall, still priced from the sale.
